Like getting to the end of waiting in line for something, the end of reading a book can be either worth your time, or distasteful. At the conclusion of the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, one of the main characters John Proctor has the option to tell a lie to save himself or tell the truth and get hanged for crimes he didn’t commit. The ending to this play was really good in the facts that it ended with John Proctor becoming the good guy, and with how his wife comes to realize that he is a good man.
During most of the Crucible it is unclear who the protagonist is until the very end of the play. There are many contentions and John proctor sees himself as a hypocrite and he is unable to be confident that he is good, until the last act of the play when he says, “I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs.” In this declaration he is confident that there is some goodness inside of him even though past events may have tried to convince
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Throughout most of the play Elizabeth Proctor, the wife of the Protagonist John Proctor, is unable to forgive and communicate well with her husband because of the affair he had with their servant Abigail Williams. However, in the last scene before John dies, Elizabeth realizes the causes and effects of her actions. She then clearly states, “I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, no honest love could come to me! Suspicion kissed you when I did; I never knew how I should say my love. It were a cold house I kept!” In this paragraph, Elizabeth confesses that she thought of John suspiciously from the start, and that he probably turned away from her because she didn’t know how to show her love. This ending represents a fine way to clearly reveal the true events behind the story and gives the reader a greater perspective of the story as a